On This Day for June 16 - First woman in space, Joyce Carol Oates is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-16 10:04 Updated: 2020-06-16 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 16

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Joyce Carol Oates

FEATURED EVENT

1963

First woman in space

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2017: German politician Helmut Kohl, who presided over the integration of East Germany into West Germany in 1990 and became the first chancellor of a unified Germany since 1945, died at age 87. [Test your knowledge of German history.]

2012: Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space when she and two other crew members were launched aboard the spacecraft Shenzhou 9. [Take our quiz about famous astronauts and cosmonauts.]

1933: The Hundred Days period of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to a close, with the bulk of his New Deal legislation passed. [ Test your knowledge of U.S. presidents.]

1911: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), a leading American computer manufacturer, was incorporated. [Take our quiz about tech companies.]

1874: Arthur Meighen, leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister of Canada (1920–21, 1926), was born.

1976: South African police fired on a group of Soweto students marching in protest against state plans to impose the Afrikaans language as a medium of instruction in black schools, igniting a massive popular uprising. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about South Africa.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1971

Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor

1890

Stan Laurel
actor and comedian

1951

Roberto Durán
Panamanian boxer

1912

Enoch Powell
British politician

1938

Joyce Carol Oates
American author